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SAE Eye on Engineering Quick Take: Historic Vehicles Standards

If you restore vintage cars, trucks, and motorcycles, SAE International is looking for your expertise. In this episode of SAE Eye on Engineering, Senior Editor Lindsay Brooke looks at the collaboration between the Historic Vehicle Association and SAE to develop standards for the preservation, restoration, responsible use, and classification of historic vehicles. SAE Eye on Engineering can be viewed at http://youtu.be/QntY13yY7Uc. It also airs Monday mornings on WJR 760 AM Detroit's Paul W. Smith Show. Access archived episodes of SAE Eye on Engineering at www.sae.org/magazines/podcasts.

Designers are envisioning new looks for vehicle interiors, as in-vehicle connectivity and electrified powertrains usher in the autonomous driving age. As more EVs enter the marketplace with battery packs housed underneath the cabin floor, the door opens to a new era of interiors.

Statistics may point to human fallibility being the cause of almost all road accidents, but the switch to a connected robotic environment must ultimately deliver every nano-second of every day on the promise of a guaranteed near-total safety highway environment. Today’s grudging acceptance by the global public of the inevitability of deaths and injuries on the road will not continue in a driverless environment.